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Staff Software Engineer

Alarm.com · Boston, MA · posted 40 days ago

In short: Staff Software Engineer at Alarm.com in Boston, MA, posted 40 days ago.

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The job

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EmployerAlarm.com
LocationBoston, Massachusetts
FieldTechnology › Software engineering
Levelnot stated
Source categorySoftware Engineering
Posted2026-09-30 (40 days ago)
Work arrangementOn-site at the location listed
PayNot published in the source listing

Job description

About Alarm.com

Alarm.com provides the leading cloud platform for smart security and IoT, powering millions of home and business experiences. Our systems integrate devices, cloud services, APIs, and event-driven workflows into a unified ecosystem used by internal teams and external partners around the world.

About the Team

This role sits at the intersection of two strategically important areas of Alarm.com's engineering organization: Strategic Partner eXcellence (SPX) and Device Platform.

SPX establishes the partner enablement function for Alarm.com's highest-value PaaS integrations. The team architects and maintains the Core Partner Platform — shared edge services, event pipelines, authentication infrastructure, and integration patterns — that allow strategic partners to build reliably on top of Alarm.com's stack. SPX acts as the primary delivery owner for Tier 1 partnerships, drives cross-team alignment, and codifies reusable patterns that enable feature teams to self-serve future integrations.

Device Platform builds and evolves the foundational shared capabilities that underpin Alarm.com's connected device ecosystem. This spans the full arc of how devices are modeled, integrated, and managed on the platform — from the APIs and event pipelines that expose device state and commands, to the lifecycle management flows that govern how devices are provisioned and maintained, to the transport and protocol infrastructure that connects physical devices to the platform at scale. The team is on a deliberate path toward cleaner domain ownership, API-first design, and independently deployable services — a modernization effort that unlocks scalability and consistency for a growing landscape of internal teams and external partners.

These two areas are deeply connected. The partner-facing platform depends on the device platform being reliable, well-bounded, and evolvable. The device platform's modernization directly enables the scalability and consistency that strategic partners require. A Staff Engineer in this space operates across both — shaping the technical foundations that teams across the organization build on.

The team is led by an Engineering Manager and supported by a senior Architect. The Staff SE hired into this role will work in close partnership with the Architect and the broader engineering organization as a peer technical leader and force multiplier.

The Role

We are hiring a Staff Software Engineer to serve as a technical multiplier across the SPX and Device Platform domains.

At Alarm.com, the Staff SE carries a distinct mandate: to make the engineers and systems around them measurably better. This is not primarily a project execution role. The Staff SE owns technically complex, high-visibility initiatives end-to-end, shapes architectural direction across domain boundaries, builds reusable frameworks and patterns that other teams depend on, and helps the organization move faster with more consistency and less rework.

Projects spearheaded by a Staff SE carry feature-team-level scope — visible work spanning the organization, often requiring cross-team collaboration and sustained technical leadership. The Staff SE anticipates medium-term technical problems 12+ months out and works proactively to prevent them from becoming delivery or reliability issues. They are active participants in engineering leadership initiatives — tech councils, working groups, cross-team design forums — not passive consumers of information.

Success in this role requires deep technical judgment in backend and platform engineering, the ability to operate across ambiguity and cross-team dependencies, and the credibility to influence technical direction alongside architects, engineering managers, and senior engineers across the department. This is a hands-on role — the Staff SE writes code, leads designs, and drives delivery — but their highest-leverage contribution is the clarity, reusability, and quality they bring to systems and teams beyond their immediate scope.

What You'll Do

Technical Leadership & Architecture

Platform & Systems Delivery

Technical Multiplier & Mentorship

Cross-Team Influence & Alignment

Operational Excellence

AI-Fluent Engineering

What We're Looking For

What Good Looks Like at This Level

A Staff SE at Alarm.com is a technical leader whose impact is unmistakably felt beyond their immediate scope. The clearest signal is multiplier impact: a Staff SE's technical contributions, reusable patterns, and engineering judgment make the teams and systems around them measurably better. They drive initiatives of feature-team-level scope, are capable of seeing current problems and upcoming architectural improvements and driving toward solutions with minimal management support, and are a trusted voice in cross-team technical conversations.

The Staff SE operates via two complementary modes:

Required Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

Technical Scope

This role has broad technical scope across two closely connected platform areas. The Staff SE will own or co-own foundational capabilities spanning device APIs, device lifecycle management, and the transport and protocol infrastructure that connects physical devices to the platform — as well as the Core Partner Platform infrastructure within SPX that enables strategic partners to build reliably on top of Alarm.com's stack. The role carries visibility at the Director level and above, and the work has direct impact on Alarm.com's ability to scale strategic partnerships and evolve its device ecosystem.

Why This Role Matters

Alarm.com is at a critical inflection point in its platform evolution. The shift toward PaaS partnerships, domain-aligned architecture, and a modernized device ecosystem requires engineers who can shape the technical foundations that dozens of teams build on — and who leave systems and organizations better than they found them.

The Staff SE hired into this role will help define how device data flows across the platform, how devices are integrated and managed at scale, how partners connect reliably to Alarm.com's infrastructure, and how the engineering organization moves faster with more consistency and less rework. The right person will be a force multiplier in the truest sense — someone whose technical contributions, reusable patterns, and engineering judgment make the teams and systems around them measurably better for years to come. 

WHY WORK FOR ALARM.COM?

COMPANY INFO

Alarm.com is the leading platform for intelligently connected properties. Millions of homeowners and businesses rely on Alarm.com's technology to secure, monitor, and manage their environments from anywhere. Our comprehensive suite of solutions—including security, video surveillance, access control, active shooter detection, intelligent automation, energy management, and wellness—is delivered exclusively through a trusted network of thousands of professional service providers and commercial integrators across North America and worldwide. Alarm.com's common stock is traded on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol ALRM. Alarm.com delivers serious security for serious people.

For more information, please visit www.alarm.com.

COMPANY BENEFITS

Our total rewards package is designed to support you holistically—in your health, your finances, and your life outside of work. The package includes medical plans with company subsidies, a Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company contribution, and a 401(k) with an employer match. We encourage a healthy work-life balance with paid vacation that increases with tenure, paid holidays, wellness time, and paid maternity and bonding leave. To complete the package, we also provide company-paid disability and life insurance, all within a collaborative and casual work environment.

Alarm.com is an Equal Opportunity Employer

In connection with your application, we collect information that identifies, reasonably relates to or describes you ("Personal Information"). The categories of Personal Information that we may collect include your name, government-issued identification number(s), email address, mailing address, other contact information, emergency contact information, employment history, educational history, criminal record, and demographic information. We collect and use those categories of Personal Information about you for human resources and other business management purposes, including identifying and evaluating you as a candidate for potential or future employment or future positions, recordkeeping in relation to recruiting and hiring, conducting criminal background checks as permitted by law, conducting analytics, and ensuring compliance with applicable legal requirements and Company policies. By submitting your application, you acknowledge that we may retain some of the personal data that you provide in your application for our internal operations such as managing our recruitment system and ensuring that we comply with labor laws and regulations even after we have made our employment decision.

Notice To Third Party Agencies:
Alarm.com understands the value of professional recruiting services. However, we are not accepting resumes from recruiters or employment agencies for this position. In the event we receive a resume or candidate referral for this position from a third-party recruiter or agency without a previously signed agreement, we reserve the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to you. If you are interested in working with Alarm.com, please email your company information and standard agreement to RecruitingPartnerships@Alarm.com.

The base salary range of this opportunity is listed below and is determined within a range based on factors including qualifications, location and experience.  This allows opportunity for growth and development within the role.  The base salary offered is part of a total compensation package.   

Base Salary Range$150,000—$190,000 USD

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The city

The job is in Boston, MA. Below is what the official statistics say about living and working there.

How Boston compares. Among the 80 largest places in Massachusetts, Boston is #1 by population, #75 for homeownership (#1 = highest), #62 for rent (#1 = cheapest), #28 for remote work (#1 = most). Its county, Suffolk County, is #1 of 14 counties for average pay ($131,280).

The place in numbers

Boston has 666,442 residents (ACS 2020–2024), about 9.5% of the population of Massachusetts. It covers 48 square miles of land, which works out to roughly 13,786 people per square mile. The median age is 33.3, 17% younger than the state median (33.3 against 40.0).

Housing

The median gross rent is $2,147 a month (rent plus utilities), 22% above the state median ($2,147 against $1,762). Over a year that is 26.5% of the median household income. US housing guidance treats housing as affordable when it takes 30% of income or less, so the typical household is under that line. The median home value is $731,700, which is 7.5 times the median household income ($97,344); a ratio above 5 usually means buying is out of reach without savings or a second income. 35.7% of households own their home, 43% below the state average (35.7% against 62.5%). A low ownership share points to a rental-heavy market with more apartments and shorter stays.

Work and pay

The Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metropolitan area has 2,703,890 jobs in the BLS wage survey, and the median pay across all occupations is $66,620 a year, 31% above the national median ($66,620 against $50,980). The biggest occupation groups are office and administrative support (265,830 jobs, median $56,580); management (254,700 jobs, median $166,580); business and financial operations (242,960 jobs, median $102,660). The area is most specialised in life, physical, and social science (2.6 times) and architecture and engineering (1.4 times), where the share of workers is well above the national share. The best-paying groups with at least 5,000 jobs are management ($166,580) and legal ($135,160). In 2026M09 the unemployment rate of Suffolk County was 4.2%. 69.9% of residents aged 16 and over are in the labour force. The city lies in Suffolk County; its jobs, pay by industry and GDP are on the county page.

Getting around

Among workers, 32.9% drive alone, 22.6% use public transit, 13.4% walk, 21.3% work from home. 22.0% of workers commute 45 minutes or more, about the same as the state average (22.0% against 21.5%).

People and education

54.9% of adults aged 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 16% above the state share (54.9% against 47.3%). 27.8% of residents were born outside the United States, 54% above the state share (27.8% against 18.1%). The poverty rate is 16.6%, 65% above the state rate (16.6% against 10.0%).

Climate

The warmest month is Jul, averaging 72°F (22.4°C), and the coolest is Jan at 26°F (-3.5°C). About 1,206 mm (47 inches) of precipitation falls in a year; Oct is the wettest month (123 mm) and Jan the driest (80 mm). These values come from NASA satellite-based climatology on a grid of about 50 km, so they describe the wider area, not a weather station in the city.

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Where to live

CITY Official statistics Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020–2024 5-year (via Census Reporter) · Data: ACS 2020–2024

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Place ⇅Distance from the job city ⇅Median rent ⇅Median home value ⇅Median household income ⇅Commute 45+ min ⇅Rent as % of occupation pay ⇅Open jobs there ⇅
Boston, MA0 mi$2,147$731,700$97,34422.0%n/aJobs
Winthrop Town, MA4 mi$2,064$649,600$116,16731.2%n/a—
Chelsea, MA4 mi$1,956$493,500$72,17928.1%n/a—
Everett, MA5 mi$2,076$610,000$85,21831.6%n/a—
Quincy, MA5 mi$2,118$618,500$98,88233.4%n/a—
Somerville, MA6 mi$2,517$911,300$132,57220.9%n/aJobs
Cambridge, MA6 mi$2,787$1,092,100$130,74813.3%n/aJobs
Revere, MA6 mi$2,076$597,400$86,96930.0%n/a—
Brookline, MA6 mi$2,835$1,246,800$142,10114.7%n/a—
Malden, MA7 mi$2,204$633,500$100,60630.2%n/a—
Milton, MA7 mi$1,474$933,200$188,52928.4%n/a—
Medford, MA7 mi$2,509$755,500$129,54022.0%n/a—
Melrose, MA8 mi$1,970$822,900$133,95334.0%n/a—
Saugus, MA9 mi$2,241$603,400$101,53919.7%n/a—
Belmont, MA9 mi$2,527$1,159,000$183,13719.2%n/a—
Braintree Town, MA9 mi$2,024$656,800$122,21428.9%n/a—
Arlington, MA9 mi$2,082$933,800$150,70127.3%n/a—
Newton, MA10 mi$2,370$1,264,900$190,30417.0%n/a—
Lynn, MA10 mi$1,722$510,100$75,04323.6%n/a—
Weymouth Town, MA10 mi$1,941$552,100$102,71432.9%n/a—

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Distances

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New York, NY190 mi8,483,844
Philadelphia, PA268 mi1,579,706
Columbus, OH643 mi914,802
Charlotte, NC722 mi903,844
Indianapolis, IN807 mi885,860
Chicago, IL854 mi2,711,226
Jacksonville, FL1,017 mi977,670
Oklahoma City, OK1,494 mi697,125
Dallas, TX1,549 mi1,307,930
Fort Worth, TX1,578 mi963,194
Houston, TX1,605 mi2,328,253
Austin, TX1,695 mi979,539
Denver, CO1,762 mi718,877
San Antonio, TX1,766 mi1,479,835
Phoenix, AZ2,294 mi1,642,323
Seattle, WA2,489 mi754,195
San Diego, CA2,576 mi1,389,526
Los Angeles, CA2,603 mi3,857,263
San Jose, CA2,678 mi990,138
San Francisco, CA2,727 mi830,235

Nearby cities with open jobs (within 120 miles)

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Cambridge, MA6 mi109
Waltham, MA12 mi5
Framingham, MA21 mi6
Andover, MA23 mi8
Barrington, RI44 mi1
Amherst, MA77 mi14

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